Pakistan's main opposition, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has formally protested to the United States ambassador in Islamabad over media reports that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on the party in 2010 when it was ruling the country, the party's spokesman said Sunday.
Bloody clashes erupted in Egypt between the security and supporters of ousted former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday, the first anniversary of his removal.
Austrian and German researchers have found the enzyme HO-1 to be a key factor in determining the degree of sickness that results from obesity, APA reported Thursday.
Around 80 percent of government debt was financed by issuing securities in the European Union (EU) in 2013, including bills, bonds, etc., according to a report released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU on Thursday.
India Wednesday conveyed its serious concern over reports that the ruling BJP party was among parties which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was authorized to spy upon.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who was placed under formal investigation for influence-peddling, on Wednesday said "politics manipulated judicial system" in a corruption probe that may taint the conservative's political come-back.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was not aiming for additional sanctions on Russia when he declared on Thursday that Moscow has only "hours" left to persuade insurgents in eastern Ukraine to lay down their arms, the State Department said.
A rare fungus, also known as " Himalayan Viagra," is both a source of income and violence across the Himalayas in Nepal.
U.S. federal accident investigators on Tuesday concluded that "mismanagement" by the pilots of Asiana Flight 214, including confusion over whether one of the airliner's key controls was maintaining airspeed, caused the plane to crash while landing in San Francisco, California, last year.
A pet kangaroo has helped its Australian owner detect skin cancer by continually licking at sores, local media reported on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was attacked Tuesday by the opposition Labor Party for bringing "a criminal into the heart of Downing Street" after a British court ruled that one of Cameron's former aides was guilty of phone hacking.
One female passenger was killed and two crew members injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at a passenger plane of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) during its landing at the airport of the country's northwestern city of Peshawar late on Tuesday, said a PIA official on Wednesday.
Recent reports about U.S. actress Angelina Jolie seeking Namibian citizenship were questionable, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
Hundreds of army, police and police special forces deployed in the southern Sri Lankan town of Aluthgama dispersed a large Buddhist mob on Monday as communal riot that killed three and wounded about 80 continued despite an indefinite curfew.
A 5.8-magnitude quake jolted Fukushima Prefecture in northeast Japan Monday at around 5:14 local time with tremor being felt in the country's capital, Tokyo.
A knife-wielding man went on a slashing rampage at a village's intersection in south China, leaving six civilians and one auxiliary policeman injured on Sunday, local authorities said.
It was not to be the dream start Japan's Samurai Blue had been hoping for in the decisive opening game of their World Cup campaign that saw them fall to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Cote d'Ivoire Sunday local time.
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